The dress was found in an old shoebox
A blue-and-white checked gingham dress worn by a young Judy Garland as Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard Of Oz will go under the hammer.
When she first saw it, “all I could think about was watching the movie when I was a child and growing up with” it, said Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw, dean of the school of music, drama and art at Catholic University, in Washington, DC.She and others are hopeful that nostalgia factor will come into play when the costume goes up for sale at Bonhams Classic Hollywood: Film And Television auction on May 24 in Los Angeles, where it has a presale estimate of 800,000 to 1.2 million US dollars.
The film is renowned for its music, its dialogue and its visuals, particularly when Dorothy goes from drab, sepia-coloured Kansas to gloriously multicoloured Oz.Ms Hall said that four are known to exist and that only two, including the one found at Catholic University, are with the blouse she wore underneath.Bonhams sold the other one with a blouse at an auction in 2015 for more than 1.5 million US dollars.
Somehow, in the years that followed, the department lost track of the costume until it became “something that people had thought was just a myth”, she said.
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